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Originally Posted by devo22
I'm surprised people are so optimistic about this one. We've made fun of Lucic and his terrible contract for years now, yet almost half of the users who voted "love" or at least "like" taking him on. I realize Neal was a huge disappointment, but at least there was a chance that his season was an outlier. Lucic has been trending down for a long time now, I really don't see a lot of upside there. The best realistic outcome to me is that we have added a 5.25m buyout-proof grinder who can't skate. I'd rather have kept Neal to see if there was anything left, to be honest ... and heck, I'd have prefered buying him out next year to taking on Lucics contract, but maybe that's just me.
oh well, I would love to be wrong about this and eat a ton of crow over the next couple of years.
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Neal was benched in the playoffs. Thier was no keeping him around for another year.